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| WBZ-TV Channel 4, Boston, MA Sign-On and Sign-Off from 1990 |
TV Sign-offs from TV
SIGN-OFFS U.S. TV Station Comments or questions? Graphics and design copyright 2009 by J. Alan Wall. All rights reserved. |
| The sign-on and sign-off of New England's
first and oldest TV station combined in one clip. Both
feature the behind-the-scenes goings-on in the WBZ-TV
production facilities. The sign-on commences with
time-lapse video of the sun rising over the Boston
skyline, taken from the north side of the Charles River.
The sign-off starts off with time-lapse video of the sun
setting over Boston, presumably viewed from the
aforementioned Charles River from a different angle. The
sign-off is followed by a non-sectarian closing prayer
and a WBZ-produced National Anthem video just chock full
of Boston's historical attractions. At the time this was
recorded, WBZ-TV was owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting
(aka Group W) and affiliated with the NBC Network since
it first signed on June 1948. In January 1995, WBZ-TV
became a CBS affiliate as a result of Westinghouse's
switching its other TV stations' affiliations with that
network. Westinghouse would buy the entire CBS ball-o-wax
outright early in 1996, and changed its name to CBS
Corporation in 1997 (I'm not about to get into the whole
Viacom story here!). RELATED "GROUP W" STATION CLIPS WJZ-TV Channel
13 (Baltimore) Sign-off from December 1981 |
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